Intrinsic count rate performance in air. Amended to include details for an alternative method called the “copper plates method.”

Detectors. Amended to include very high count rate performance (i.e., low dead-time losses, typical of pixelated detectors) instead of reporting observed count rate at maximum and 20% loss. Alternatively, the maximum count rate tested and percentage count loss at that rate may be reported.

Intrinsic energy resolution. Amended to allow an isotope other than Co-57 to determine the keV per channel calibration factor and intrinsic flood field uniformity was amended for clarity and to include measurements of defective pixels and pixel clusters for discrete pixel detectors. Additionally, the term “defective pixel” was added to the list of defined terms.

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